Frank, thanks for your quick and accurate suggestion. I was aware that I
had configured the original (from source) amanda to use amanda:disk, and
that Debian used backup:backup. I thought I had allowed for this
wherever needed, but forgot /etc/inetd. When I made these changes,
amanda worked on the tapeserver:
cn2:/etc# rcsdiff inetd.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: inetd.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -r1.5 inetd.conf
78,80c78,80
< amandaidx stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
< amidxtape stream tcp nowait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped
< amanda dgram udp wait backup /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
---
> amandaidx stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/lib/amanda/amindexd
> amidxtape stream tcp nowait amanda /usr/sbin/tcpd
/usr/lib/amanda/amidxtaped
> amanda dgram udp wait amanda /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/lib/amanda/amandad
cn2:/etc# su -s /bin/bash amanda '/usr/sbin/amcheck -c DBackup'
Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
--------------------------------
WARNING: www: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
Client check: 2 hosts checked in 29.955 seconds, 1 problem found
(brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)
cn2:/etc#
Thanks, again, Frank for your response.
-Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Smith [mailto:fsmith AT hoovers DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:24 PM
To: Zembower, Kevin
Cc: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Subject: Re: Need help converting to Debian amanda package
Zembower, Kevin wrote:
> I've had an Amanda system running successfully and mostly problem-free
> for the last five years. Because of some firewall issues, I compiled
> Amanda from source with some specific flags for ports used. About a
year
> ago, the firewall issue were removed, and amanda continued to work
> without any problems or configuration changes. Just recently, I got a
> new server with RHEL4 instead of the Debian servers I normally run. I
> decided to try to convert my Amanda system to use the packages
provided
> by the distributions, since I no longer needed the customization and,
as
> one amanda-user wrote, the Amanda packages 'just seemed to work.'
>
> I either deleted the amanda-owned files manually, or moved them out of
> the way. Then, I installed the amanda-client, -server and -command
> Debian sarge packages on the tapehost. Then, I moved the one's I
thought
> I needed back into place, such as /var/amanda, /etc/amamda and
> /tmp/amanda. This was all on centernet (cn2), my Amanda tapehost.
>
> In general, the system seems to be minimally working, but I get this
> error:
> cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# su -s /bin/bash amanda '/usr/sbin/amcheck
DBackup'
> Amanda Tape Server Host Check
> -----------------------------
> Holding disk /dumps/amanda2: 14596644 KB disk space available, using
> 14596644 KB
> Holding disk /dumps/amanda: 14473792 KB disk space available, using
> 14473792 KB
> NOTE: skipping tape-writable test
> Tape DBackup39 label ok
> Server check took 5.210 seconds
>
> Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check
> --------------------------------
> WARNING: centernet: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
> WARNING: www: selfcheck request timed out. Host down?
> Client check: 2 hosts checked in 34.333 seconds, 2 problems found
>
> (brought to you by Amanda 2.4.4p3)
> cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# date
> Thu Nov 30 15:00:59 EST 2006
> cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg#
>
> However, nothing's generated in the /tmp/amanda-dbg directory, and
> nothing of any use in the /tmp/amanda directory:
>
> cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# ls -ltr
> total 384
> <snip>
> -rw------- 1 amanda disk 2054 Nov 29 18:11
> sendbackup.20061129180201.debug
> -rw------- 1 amanda disk 206 Nov 29 18:21
> amtrmlog.20061129182141.debug
> -rw------- 1 amanda disk 553 Nov 29 18:21
> amtrmidx.20061129182141.debug
> cn2:/tmp/amanda-dbg# cd ../amanda
> cn2:/tmp/amanda# ls -ltr
> total 32
> <snip>
> -rw------- 1 backup backup 184 Nov 30 14:30
> amcheck.20061130142955.debug
> -rw------- 1 backup backup 184 Nov 30 15:00
> amcheck.20061130150004.debug
> cn2:/tmp/amanda# cat amcheck.20061130150004.debug
> amcheck: debug 1 pid 12684 ruid 1001 euid 0: start at Thu Nov 30
> 15:00:04 2006
> amcheck: dgram_bind: socket bound to 0.0.0.0.856
> amcheck: pid 12684 finish time Thu Nov 30 15:00:38 2006
> cn2:/tmp/amanda#
>
> Can anyone help me trouble-shoot this problem, starting with where to
> find the debug files that would be useful? Right now, I'm not worried
> about getting the remote host www to backup.
Any chance the package version of Amanda is using a different
user/group than you were previously, so the files you copied back
might have incorrect user/group/perms?
The Debian package puts some logs in /var/log/amanda/ as well
as /tmp/amanda, perhaps RedHat is doing something similar. Maybe
use locate or find to look for filenames containing amanda to see
if there's any amandad.*.debug files?
Frank
>
> Thanks for all your advice and suggestions.
>
> -Kevin
>
> Kevin Zembower
> Internet Services Group manager
> Center for Communication Programs
> Bloomberg School of Public Health
> Johns Hopkins University
> 111 Market Place, Suite 310
> Baltimore, Maryland 21202
> 410-659-6139
>
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